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152583P.pdf   12/21/2016  Kevin Ward  v.  Bradley Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-2583
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Melloy and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Prisoner case - Prisoner civil rights. Defendants' judgment on claim they used excessive force when they used pepper spray to gain plaintiff's compliance with orders to submit to wrist restraints affirmed; plaintiff had been lawfully ordered to submit to the restraints and refused to comply and the force used was not disproportionate to security concerns and was not, therefore, cruel or unusual; the evidence does not clearly refute the district court's finding that the defendant guard was attempting to spray plaintiff's face and not his genitals during a fourth administration of the spray; district court did not err in determining plaintiff had failed to prove his claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress under Missouri law.